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Not quite. Remember, IS brought back dead characters just so that Robin can marry them. Bringing back dead characters does not automatically demean the events that lead to their deaths. Like, Star Trek II becomes no less awesome because of Star Trek III. But the fact that the Spotpass characters support only Robin shows that IS saw nothing in them but marriage fodder. Robin is an obscure support for everyone but Aversa. Heck, IS even destroyed the Aversa and Emmeryn we knew and replaced them with different characters who just look like them. Hence it rendered any potential that their continued existence had entirely moot.

Personally I don't see how they could make a stage based on Ylisstol or Southtown (wait, it's called Southtown? Seriously?). I mean, I don't see how one could recognizance these stages as Fire Emblem stages the way one would immediately recognizance the "Bridge of Eldin" as a Zelda stage. I definitely can't see it with Ylisstol. There is nothing that stands out. Maybe with Southtown but that is effectively a generic village and kinda underscores the series. Personally I'd say that Arena Ferox is a fine choice since it has a quite recognizable design.

Why would they possible have gone back to the PC? The team was fine.

And right back to Anarchy. This will be a day to remember.

So this is how anarchy dies... with frustrated teeth clenching.

Flameron was considered the Anti Christ for lesser evils. Does nobody consider the possibility that Zapdos wanted to be captured? Things were going way to smoothly.

What makes the Helix the good guy in this scenario? Does it grant cookies? They must be some pretty good cookies to make up for this butchery.

The Helix demands living sacrifices, I presume. A god like that clearly doesn't care about the wellbeing of his underlings.

I pray that it will not also take Bird Jesus' death before people will finally realize how foolish their misguided and futile ambitions are.

I wonder if they would be more effective if Twith didn't have the 20 seconds delay. Oh well, they are still faster then I was back then.

Yes. Thank you for pointing out that error.

Amelia I think she makes for a neat character. She is no Jill but she nevertheless does a good job showing the war from the perspective of the average Grado citizen. Luca (TRS) I'd say his biggest issue is that you have to reject Lee and Narron for him. Thanks to a very high speed growth, his offensive actually grows quite nicely and once he learns Charge at lv 15 he turns into a ranged Ulfzerker and can just rain down arrows on enemies until they die. That 80+ kills Handbow is also nice. Kate (TRS) First tier bow/sword hybrids are cool. Rolf (PoR) He is a pretty good character. Like for example his recruitment shows nicely how meaningful the context of a side character's recruitment can be, coming right after Greil's death and the barely avoided TPK afterwards that showed Rolf just how easily his friends and family could die. No wonder he and Mist joined in the next mission to do whatever they can to avoid that. And it is nice that he is actually used to address the issues of having children on the battlefield rather then just ignoring them as usual.

Sometimes I think that these days it is impossible to say as much as a single line without somebody trying to twist it into an innuendo.

They probably just put their mount somewhere and got themselves a new one. Like, it's canon that Lachesis (or Raquesis or whatever it was) got her mount in Silesia. There is no big magic behind that. As for the named mounts, I have no explanation for Titania and Achaeus. But given that Cherche talks about Minerva just like Penny does about Mr. Bear, I say it's fairly obvious that Cherche is insane and calls every mount she has Minerva.

Well, she and her daughter are the only ones who can ever use Aura. Anyway, weapons are not a got criteria. There are tons of people who can use unique weapons in FE5 for example. It doesn't prove anything. It's a nice tradition but I don't see why it has to be obligatory just because Celicia is the only exception so far. It applies to both anyway.

I guess I technically like FE13's system the most. But I think that the music should switch at the same time as the visuals. As it is now, the battle theme changes back to the map theme as soon as the enemy is defeated and before the victory pose, exp gains... etc. The transition never feels natural that way.

I'm on the team of Lord simply being a term used for the Main character. Stuff like Ike's promotion in PoR or Lucina's class are merely playing with the tradition of them having Lord as a class name but are not the reason that they are "the" Lord. So my list is: FE7: Eliwood, Hector, Lyn due to each of them being the main character depending on the mode. FE8: Eirika, Eprahim, ditto FE9: Ike FE10: Ike, Micaiah, Elincia, since the three of them are main characters of their own story arcs. Others like Nephenee or Tibarn in part 4 are merely temporal the leader of their army but are never the main character of an arc. FE12: Kinda difficult. I'm just gonna assume that Chris is merely the viewpoint character of the game and that the Lord is still Marth. FE13: Probably Chrom since he is supposed to be a traditional Lord, down to the point where he is the unit representing the team on the world map. So it feels odd to deny him that title. Besides, technically, Avatar plays the role of the amnesiac maiden who plays a vital role in the plans of the villain like Julia, Ninian or even Isabella/Catleia over in Advance Wars. But definitely not Lucina. For her, Lord is nothing but a class name.

This entire effective weapon thing really didn't become a thing until Roy. Before that, Marth was the only main character who used one.

No, it is White Magic. It is used so that healers can gain EXP and restore the HP they loose by casting heal spells.

I doubt that Blume really opposes the child hunts. It were the other nobles who don't like it. As Ishtar is FE5 phrased it. "My father is hesitating because many important nobles are voicing their concern with the child hunting. My brother is also strongly against this act." His hesitation probably has more to do with self preservation then anything. He can't risk that the Freedge turn against each other when there are several rebellions going and Trabant is watching carefully for an opportunity to take the entire Peninsula. And by the time of chapter 7, he already allowed them: Villager: King Blume subjugated this entire area just after the last war. He's a horrible ruler. And to top that off, he's now conducting child hunts! We have had all we can take of that man! All we got about him being a good person is Tinny saying in the final chapter that he was nice to her and mom "at least." Unfortunately he was apparently not nice enough to protect Tiltyu from Hilda. I mean, I could get that he maybe hated Tiltyu for betraying the family and simply didn't care what happened to her. But that goes against him being "nice" to her in the first place.

A cutscene between Galzus and Cyas in chapter 6 doesn't get triggered. All that happens is that Saphy suddenly shows up, using a line from the next chapter You might wanna look the actual dialog up when you get there. http://www.serenesforest.net/fe5/script.html But most importantly, looking up the stats of a regular Mercenary enemy crashes the game. But they only appear in one chapter anyway and you can kill them without looking up their stats.

It was a great way to reward the player for finishing a map quickly without tracking down and squeezing the EXP out of even the last enemies on the map. Kinda like how Battle for Wesnoth, you could wait until the last turn to get more money for the next map but since you would always get more money for your remaining turns, it was never a good idea. So you are never tempted to abuse those mechanics. It was also a nifty way to flexibly reward the player for certain side objectives.

I don't know how Chrom feels about it because it's not discussed . I know that the writers at least realized that the two situations relate to each other since Aversa off all people brings it up when fighting Chrom. Chrom: Robin sees beyond himself/herself, to the larger reality. One person's life means nothing in the shadow of millions. Aversa: A sweet sentiment, and easily spoken when you bear no love for the one... But more difficult when the sacrifice was your exalted sister, wasn't it? I don't expect you to see the world through my eyes, Prince. But I won't pretend to understand how things look through yours. Chrom: ...Then I suppose there is nothing more to say. As you can see, the debate is already over and Chrom will later talk as if he always was apposed to the One person's life means nothing in the shadow of millions viewpoint. There is no transition. And Chrom bluntly saying to Avatar that Emmeryn would have not wanting her to sacrifice herself is as close as the game gets to discuss it.

Since this thread is at this point probably successfully reincarnated, I guess I might as well update my votes from last year. Best: Eprahim My original vote was for Ike but ultimately Ike was merely a viewpoint character handcrafted for the purpose of healing the wounds of Telius. He did a good job playing his role and is well characterized but ultimately he didn't have a particular personal involvement with the wars. In fact, the game has him deliberately not change over the entire game, against Nasir's prediction that his idealistic outlook would not survive his confrontation with the dark sides of Telius. It's only by staying true to himself that he became a hero. Eprahim is different and way more important to his game. Because his story is about himself. About the person he was, the person he is and the person he would have to become in order to live up to his responsibilities. And his relationship with Lyon, the person he admired for their responsibility and devotion, whose lesson continue to guide him as he is forced to fight him. Eprahim is an ace. A genius in combat and with a knack for strategy. And yet he is probably the most human Lord in the franchise. As good as he is, his human frailties are made painfully obvious, with the revelations of chapter 19 forcing him to his knees. But like a hero is intended to, he ultimately overcomes his doubts and makes a decision. Worst: Chrom Roy was a shitty Marth clone. That was as lot as he gets. But Chrom... Who is this guy? Sure, he uses a lot of words and in vacuum they may seem like a part of a character arc. But they come out of nowhere and are forgotten immediately afterwards. Like, in chapter 11 he will start talking about finally understanding that all people deep down desire peace, yet he never blamed anyone but Gangrel in the first place. And despite "all people desiring peace" he is just as ready to kill him as before. And afterwards, after crushing Plegia he leaves the now defenseless country to it's fate and allows evil cultists to take over, that feed the population from dragons. Later against Wallhart, he will suddenly claim that he wants to unite the entire world under his guidance. Does that go anywhere? Nope, he just leaves the place in the hand of feuding dynasties and goes his merry ways. And despite his repeated insistence of how great his sister's suicide sacrifice was, he will suddenly forget about it when it's Avatar's life that decides the fate of the world. Sure, that's Awakening's writing lacking direction as usual. But I have nevertheless no clue who he even is. He isn't bland as much as that he seems to channel different persons between scenes and switch between different character arcs. I bring that up because if I could at least see what this guy is supposed to be, I could dismiss his actual actions as shitty writing. Like, I don't think that Micaiah had no choice but to fight Ike and burn thousands. But... I can recognize that the writer's intended her to have no choice. That she would either fight or everyone would die. That it was the lives of the People of Daein or the lives of the Apostle's army. And as a General of Daein, she could only have chosen the people that rely on her. It's just that the execution of that plot point is lacking. So I don't hold it against her but against the writing in general. But like this, I can't excuse Chrom's actions. He abandons the helpless Plegians, he burns down thousands of people (who all deep down desire peace), he leaves Valm on it's own after he killed the guy in the silly red costume and he never thinks about his responsibility as a ruler during the events of the Grima arc. Fittingly, he also never became King during the two year time skip. In consequence, he should be irresponsible and lacking in empathy. And his attempts at doing good never seem to go beyond killing the enemy leader and let fate sort everything out. Speaking of fate, his idea of beating it seems to be: Do the same thing that already didn't work and hope that things will somehow work out better this time. "Groundhog Day" with him as the main character would be the most boring movie ever. Seriously, if trying to shrug off the mind control of an evil god is your Plan A, you really deserve to loose. And he justifies his insistence that Robin comes along with it allowing Robin to make up for her actions. How can a hero who doesn't understand that you are not supposed to follow the sunk-cost fallacy be allowed to win? However, his lack of responsibility is the main reason that this guy is not only a bad character bad a pathetic excuse for a Lord. Lords are about all about responsibility. They don't just think about their personal needs when the fate of the world is decided. They don't casually slaughter thousands of people like they were pieces on a chessboard. And they will not just ignore the blights of an defeated nation... heck, an entire continent. Lords are about bringing people together. Not a bunch of random freaks but people from any country. They prove that there is a common ground between all people and they inspire the ones who have already lost hope. And they understand that slaying a villain doesn't automatically fix everything but is only the beginning of the challenge of building a lasting peace. They may not start as such but they will grow into that role. Chrom is only about himself and his League of Super Shepherds kicking ass across the world. People don't matter to him unless they are PCs. And his responsibility as a ruler never matters to him at all.

That's not a contradiction. Games like "Psychonauts" and "Beyond Good and Evil" are down right legendary for managing to bomb despite receiving tons of praise by critics and players alike. Fire Emblem is no Psychonauts but it has always received critical praise since it was around. The Tellius games were no exception there. Anyway, maybe these games were probably mostly bought by devoted fans. These kind of people would probably rarely sell the discs, leading to the high prices.